Personal blog of Jo. My ramblings on anything and everything, but expect a lot of in depth fan nerding.
Blog is generally run on queue, 4 posts a night. She/her, demi-bisexual aromantic. Buddhist, member of the SGI. Foxes on banner made by the talented Sparkle
Anyways, y’all better start saving your fave fanfics and fanart under the Disney labels cause it looks like they’re trying to curb fair use/fanworks and I’m sure there’s going to be mass panicked deletions even though it’s probably unnecessary cause AO3′s legal team will fight for us.
“The guys would get so into it, and then one of them would make a mistake, and - boom - break. They would be fine. Laughing, everything else. Boom - seconds later they were back into it. And this would go on for hours and hours every day.”
One fall I had to write a 5000 word, two 2500 word, and a 1250 word paper for a single class. The long one took me nearly the entire semester's worth of focus and research, but I banged out the shortest one in less than three days. My first fic though, took over 5 years to be completed. Different things are gonna trip up different people, and depending on the subject material and how your inspiration is involved, there's no telling how long it takes to create written work.
Me, in tears, halfway through writing a 300 word essay: I can’t do this anymore
watching old lesbians learn new slang vid on FB and they float ‘pillow princess’ and the middle butch goes “ohhhhhhhh, i know what a pillow princess is :>>>>>” i love her
Not everything needs to be a full story, you know?
If you have just one or two scenes that you’re really excited about, you can just write those. You don’t have to create a full WIP to contain them if you don’t want.
You can create characters without putting them into a project, they can just exist.
You can worldbuild for a universe that you never write about.
If there’s a trope you really want to write, but you don’t have a project to put them in… You can just write the best parts of that trope on its own.
Even if you do have a story and there’s parts you don’t want to write, it’s okay to just write the parts that you’re excited about. You don’t need to write the other parts and make it a full story.
I feel like in writing, there’s a lot of emphasis put on completion and writing a full story.
Completion or a full story doesn’t always have to be the purpose or goal. It’s okay and wonderful to just let something exist on its own without anything else.
My cousin makes this on occasion. It really just ends up tasting like a spice cake. I think he calls it Surprise Cake? Probably because no one guesses the secret ingredient and it's fairly simple to make if there is sudden need for cake.
Look, I don’t make the rules but you’re legally required to watch this.
TIL astronaut Jack Schmidt discovered he was allergic to moon dust, which is a thing millions of other people have probably gone their whole lives never knowing.
Sorry, I’m not up to date on the details of Star Wars outside the movies, but was R2-D2, like, Leia’s droid between the Prequels and the Original Trilogy? Whatever the case, I think I might need it to happen in a crack fic.
Because I’ve suddenly imagined R2-D2 accompanying Leia to her Senate meetings. In reality, it would probably be very dangerous for R2 and Leia. But I think it would be perfect for a crack fic.
Like, just imagine if Leia and R2 are just strolling around the halls of the Senate, with Leia ranting to R2 about something or other. And then bump into an older Senator by accident. And at first it’s all pleasantries and apologies, but then the older Senator takes one look at R2, turns a color that is not a good color for their people to turn, and then says in utter horror, “IT’S YOU!”
Because surely there must be older Senators out there from before the Empire, who remember that horrible little nightmare droid who tailed those awful Jedi around and occasionally Senator Amidala. (Like, there must be people out there who witnessed R2 blow up a building or even straight-up kill someone.)
And Leia’s like, “What? You know my droid?”
And the Senator’s got a hand over their heart, both to soothe themselves and a little protectively, and says, “My dear, I couldn’t forget that thing if I was dead. That’s the little bastard who set me on fire! Granted, it was an accident and it saved Senator Amidala’s life again, but still. She was far too fond of it! That and that debonair Jedi it belonged to!”
And Leia lights up immediately because oho, this is interesting. Meanwhile R2 is basically swearing up a storm trying to push her away. And the Senator has an expression on their face like, “Oh, damn, I shouldn’t have said that.”
Anyway, Leia accidentally figures out who her parents were because R2 is a memorable asshole that old politicians still see in their nightmares.